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Peter Moore's avatar

Difficult to even read ABOUT this novella, much less crack it open myself. Thx for sparing me. I’ve coined a word to encapsulate this book: riveting + revolting = rivolting. Ugh.

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Kalpana Mohan's avatar

Ugh indeed and quite ugly but to write so beautifully about the very ugly. How does anyone do that…!?

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Peter Moore's avatar

Some writers seek intense emotion at the heart of their work. This author found it in his own brief prison stay. I guess he had to get it out of his system.

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Kalpana Mohan's avatar

But this man was in and out of prison all the time, it seems, for saying and writing all the wrong things about the people at the helm😬

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Peter Moore's avatar

Write what you know, etc.

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Srikanth Chari's avatar

I admire your tenacity in continuing through such difficult reads! Prisons do seem to be depraved institutions that make all involved depraved - guards, inmates, and their families…

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Kalpana Mohan's avatar

Thank you, Srikanth. While I would not have picked these books off of a bookshelf locally, I felt that if they were special to the place I was visiting, I should try to read them.

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